Welcome
Welcome to Kildare.Online

Exploring Co. Kildare's Heritage using digital humanities techniques, photography, digital imagery, and 3D technology

Welcome
Welcome to Kildare.Online

Exploring Co. Kildare's Heritage using digital humanities techniques, photography, digital imagery, and 3D technology

The Furness Project
The Furness Project
Documenting in 3D the National Monuments of the Furness Estate
A New View Of Old Kilcullen
A New View of Old Kilcullen
Using advanced imaging techniques to explore the iconography of the high cross shaft
Maynooth - Photo Essay
The College Chapel
A photo essay on the chapel of St Patrick's College
Maynooth - Photo Essay
Castletown House

A photo essay on Ireland's largest Palladian style house

Ballymore High Crosses
Ballymore's Two High Crosses
Photogrammetry reveals new details and insights
Maynooth Map
Maynooth Castle c.1634
Applying Georectification and Overlay Techniques to a Historic Castle Plan
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Reimagining Jigginstown House
Utilising 3D models to interpret the ruins of the 1637 mansion
The Portlester Effigy
Portlester Effigy
The carved memorial of Roland FitzEustace and wife from c. 1496 at Newabbey, Kilcullen
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Art & Design
Historic Kildare Designs
Exploring some ancient patterns, designs, and decorative art found in Co. Kildare
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Kildare Online

Aspects of Kildare’s Heritage documented using digital humanities techniques, photography, digital imagery, and 3D technology

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Kildare Online

Kildare’s Heritage Online documented by Seán Sourke

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On this website you will find examples of my work focusing on various aspects of County Kildare’s Heritage documented through photography, photogammetry, and writing. I use a variety of imaging techniques, not only to document heritage structures and monuments, but also as a means to carry out research. For example, employing digital photography and 3D modelling to reveal hidden or difficult to see surface detail on stone monuments.

The website also contains various image galleries, videos, and other miscellaneous digital bits and pieces. The website is a work in progress and will be added to on an ongoing basis. Thanks for visiting!

The main image above shows the little known but magnificent disused five arched Harristown Rail Viaduct spanning the River Liffey in County Kildare. It would make a stunning highlight to a potential Green-way, should one ever be developed (hint hint) along the old Naas to Tullow Rail Line. The colourful image beneath this text is a detail photograph of a stained glass panel created in 1997 by George Walsh, for the Church of the Irish Martyrs, at Ballycane, Naas, County Kildare.

Digital Imaging Techniques

DEV-Low Imaging

This is a new methodology for improving the visibility of depth in certain types of low relief sculpture by utilising 3D models generated through photogrammetry. From these models orthographic images are produced, which are then subjected to a digital photographic processing technique that creates a visual adjustment based on differences in depth. The end result is a considerable improvement in the visual appreciation of detail in low relief stone sculpture. I developed this method in early 2020 as a solution to enhance the visibility of the details on the eroded partial high cross shaft at Old Kilcullen.

Depth Enhancement Visualistion for Low Relief Sculpture, or DEV-low

3D Technology

Photogrammetry

This little known standing stone outside of Naas, was refereed to by 19th century antiquarians as ‘the Longstone Rath’, due to its location within a large earthen banked enclosure. A burial cist was discovered at its base during an archaeological excavation in 1912. The site dates from the Bronze Age.

Remote Imaging Technology

LiDAR

LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) is a remote imaging technology that uses laser emitting equipment, typically mounted on an aircraft, to send and receive laser light bounced off a study area in order build up three-dimensional information on the topography of the earth’s surface. LiDAR data can be further processed using a number of techniques, including Hillshade Analysis.

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Photography

Heritage Documentation

Documenting through photography a wide variety of heritage including, stone monuments, buildings, architectural details, plaques, and stained glass. These images need to be changed

Russborough Colonnade 2015
Wicklow Head, 2015
Glendalough, 2015
Wicklow Head 2015
Bill Glennon, 2011

Aerial Archaeology

Details of the potential archaeological sites I have identified though aerial imagery, maps, and LiDAR.

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Field System

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Vector and Raster graphic Illustration

Illustration

LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) is a remote imaging technology that uses laser emitting equipment, typically mounted on an aircraft, to send and receive laser light bounced off a study area in order build up three-dimensional information on the topography of the earth’s surface. LiDAR data can be further processed using a number of techniques, including Hillshade Analysis.